Do we really want a Wal Mart Board member for President in 08?

[BayCityProgressive]

I have never been one to bash Hillary Clinton, however I have become disatisfied with her in the last few months because she has yet to support single payer health insurance OR a withdrawal from Iraq. The two most important issues facing our country right now in my opinion. So I decided to do a little research on her. I do not like at all what I have found. It seems in the 80's she was a corporate pig for Wal Mart. The Walton's gave heavily to Bill Clinton's campaigns and she was a member of their board. How can progressive people vote for Hillary knowing she helped a company that is racist, sexist, hurts the environment, hurts small business, pays substandard wages, and exploits the third world? This is one more reason why I hope Feingold runs for the nomination...I cannot support anymore DLC crap.

[jobycom]

1. Thank god for Walmart

They made the lives of my parents and friends much better after Katrina.

Sam Walton was the richest man in the world, and he was in Arkansas while Bill Clinton was governor. Of course they supported each other.

And I hope Feingold runs, too. He won't win, though. Hillary can, but I don't see Russ winning.

[DebJ]

2. was WalMart like that in the 80's? Bet you don't remember this:

what made WalMart so big was printed in huge signs all over its' trucks: Our products are all Made In America. Yep, that's right, Sam kept the jobs here. I am curious as to what point in time they became a tool for China...where was Sam at that point?

[Pepperbelly]

4. dead... nt

[afdip]

11. hillary was on the board of wal-mart in the '80's . . .

dubya the demigod was snorting cocaine and drinking brown liquor out of the bottle, doing the insider trading w/harken stock and generally distinguishing himself in the 1980's.

[Pepperbelly]

3. Jesus Christ ...

are you going to flog this as well?

:eyes:

I don't know how much you know about Wal-Mart but the behemoth of today resembles the chain built by Sam Walton only marginally. Sam was a ripe old bastard but he was a saint compared to the gouging shits that run it these days. His kids are mainly rich neer-do-wells who are interested in profits and private schools.

There is absolutely nothing wrong, IMO, with Hillary sitting on their board in the 80s. Shit, I'd sit on their board if they offered me some bucks. They probably wouldn't like me once they got to know me but maybe they didn't like Hillary either.

[BayCityProgressive]

5. hm

alright..If these things are true than perhaps it wasn't as bad a thing as I had thought. As I said I am not a big Clinton basher but this really didn't sound good to me.

[Pepperbelly]

7. It was a beast in the 80s but ...

not nearly the evil monolith that it is today.

The old man was no doubt a dick who squeezed every nickel until the buffalo shat, but there was some humanity in him. He started out poor and that always affects one's P.O.V. His heirs have never known poverty. Hell, they've never known anything other than RICH.

No soul in it these days. A corporate steel fist within a velvet glove. But they make enough that they do try to give some back to the communities from which they drain cash after destroying the base of small business.

:D

[Lifelong Protester]

14. They give very little back to the communities they are in

what is given in donations of, say candy for a youth group, or other food donations, are what WAL-MART squeezes out of its suppliers. I don't at all like the idea of them parading around like they are such big community boosters when it does not affect their bottom line at all.
I despise WAL-MART and would gladly do without than have to shop their. They are just robber barons, only not from the east coast, so they get to parade behind that 'folksy' exterior.

[DebJ]

15. 'try to give back'...hell, no, they are just paying PR expenses

[bluestateguy]

10. I'd sit on the board too

and I'd be the voice of the average Wal-Mart worker, and be an all around pain in the ass for the Walton family.

[seabeyond]

6. it was a different walmart in the 80's than it is today. most corps

were different in the 80's than they are today. tehy started shifting in 90's, after reagan for eight years

[DebJ]

8. you got that right. The companies I worked for in the 80's hey..

respected their employees ....wow, what a revolutionary idea!

[seabeyond]

13. i worked for cocacola. was a great company to work for.

what health, dental and eye insurance we had. vacations. good pay. all kinds of stuff. yaaaaa

[DebJ]

9. you got that right. The companies I worked for in the 80's hey..

respected their employees ....wow, what a revolutionary idea!

Now we're just disposable replaceable assets, and the prices of our replacements keep going down

[chalky]

12. Walmart was NOWHERE NEAR the monstrosity it is now.

At least here in Texas, Walmart stuck to one store in a central small of in the middle of other small towns and SuperWalmarts were non-existent.